Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-03-16
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Wallace Carpenter, aged IS, is
charged with the murder o. his father
at HustoDville, KY.
Wright & Frost, hardware mer
chants at Delhi, n. Y, have failed Ii
abilities, $35, 900; assets, $4,000.
The journeyman furniture makers
OF st. Louis are discussing the ques-
tion of asking an advance Ia wages.
The hardware store of f. n. Mon.
roe, at Howell, Mich, was destroyed
by fire, together with half the village.
Loss about $1OO,O00; insurance,
$4,000. The receipt of threatening
letter warning Monroe to cease his
efforts in the cause OF prohibition
leads to suspicion of incendiarism.
Obediah Wheelock, q wealthy and
eccentric man who lived at 1l12
Hilbert street, Philadelphia, hanged
himself in the attic of his house. A
note left on table was marked "a
O'Clock p. NJ" and said his only rea~
son for taking his life was ill-health,
concluding with a farewell to all his
friends. Wheelock was g. bachelor,
IS years of age, and was worth
100000.
The large furniture establishment,
formerly the property of the Luppert
& Kline Furniture Company, lately
operated by George Luppert on a
lease, was burned on the 18th. Loss
about $4,000; insurance 81, 900.
Loss on stock $4,000; insurance
$4,000.
The Southern Pacific company has
purchased Senator Fairs railroad
running from San Francisco to Santa
Cruz, also the Senator's entire street
railroad system in Oakland, the price
stated to be something over $6,OOO,-
600.
Thomas w. Turner, storekeeper in
New York for Panama dredging COM
pany, is missing and is supposed to
have been murdered, as ne carried 81,
400 in money.
w. Kilrein, G. Baudais and Patrick
Smith, who started from the foot OF
West 125th Street, New York, to row
to Fort Lee, are supposed to have
been drowned.
The medical commission appointed
at the instance Of the Porte to in
vestigate stories about cruelties being
perpetrated on the rebel prisoners In
Bulgaria, reports that there is no
truth in stories.
At New orleans on the 18th, fire de,
stroyed the Commercial cotton COM
press. 1t was valued at $75, 900.
Thecotton destroyed belonged to Leh-
man, Stern & Co. The total loss is
estimated at $4,000, insured.
At an early hour on the 18th. fire
broke out in the fre-room OF William
Peters saw-mill at Bay City, Mich.
The flames spread rapidly, destroying
the mill and two drill houses on the
west and north Of the mill. During
the fire several barrels OF oil exploded
with terrific report. Loss $4,000;
fully insured. The mill will be rebuilt.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers denies the re-
port that his organization IS assist
ing the striking brakenlen and switch
hands OF the New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio railroad. Nothing new
has developed. All freight traffic
over TIE read has ceased, but new
men are being hired and it is thought
efforts will be made to run trains
soon. Only $50 men ere engaged
in the strike, 4, 600 are out of employ
ment by reason OF the blockade OF
freight.
SEVENTEEN persons were injured by
railway collision at Franzenstadt,
Austria.
A TRAIN on an Austrian railway
struck an engine at Franzenstadt, by
which II persons were injured.
KING LEOPOLD, Of Belgium, has
Inspected monument to General
Gordon, the casting of which has just
been completed. The monument is to
be erected in Westminster Abbey.
ALEX. BURKE had his head crushed to
a Jelly by the fall of boiler which he
was repairing at Chicago. His brother
was accidentally killed at East st.
Louis about four weeks previous.
In the divorce case brought at New
York against the son of Commodore
Kittson, the jury finds that he was
incapable of making a marriage con-
tract, through intoxicsytion, and that
the woman wa of bad character,